Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-15
THE kIRMES DANCES.
Some of the Most Notable Ones anl
Those Who Will Participate i'm Them.

One OF the most "taking- dances in the KirmeS,
it is expected, will be the Gypsy dance, in which
viii appear forty well-traned dancers gaily at
tired as spanish gypsies This costume admits Of
more than usual latitude in the matter Of decora-
tlon, and hence is the most varied and attractive,
! while the movement or the dance is quick and
| dashing throughout. mass OF brilliant color
| and glittering ornaments dazzle the eye as the
long line of dancers, waving their rbbOn-bedecked
tambour1nes gaily above their heads streams forth
from gypsy encampment on the stage to the
| tune OF lively galop. One wing OF the dance
Hiram E. Mitchell; the other by Miss Claude
Money and Mr.. Flemming Lavender The rest are
Misses Rose Cotterill, Leila Herbert, - Christ
| Ford, - Blount, Janet Richards, Grace Bean,
| Lysle Thompson, Nellie Peck, Alice Henning So
| phie Jackson, - Mcfarland, Pearl Foster, Leila
Tw1ggS, Pauline Wright, Messrs. j. w. Welsh,
Malcolm Henry, Charles Lavender, - Dowd,
ifo Henry, u & w. Marin, Geo. Money, Richard
Gorgas. Frank Clement, Prot. Fellows. Jno M.
Thompson, = Welsh. Jno: W. Coleman, McCon-
direction OF Mrs. A. w. Cochran, assisted by Mrs.
Villas, Mrs. Senator Pugh, Mrs. senator Vance,
Mrs. Benjamin ButrerWOrth, Mrs. JOnn M. Martin,
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The Minuet under Mrs. Senator Dolphs enthu-
siastie management, assisted by her efIeient aids
Mrs. Edward ualladay, Mrs. s. D. Pinson, Mrs.
Justice Field Mrs. Justice Matthews, Mrs. Senator
tor Leland stanford, MIS- Folsom and Mrs. w. w.
Upton-is made up as follows: Leaders, Miss Du-
rant and Mr.. r. G. POultney; Miss Waite and Mr..
William Acklan. The others are: Misses Jewett,
Evans, Grosvenor, Taylor, stevens, Springer,
Kelly, LawtOn, Irwin and MunSOn; MeSsrs. VIM.
Hayward, s. G. Elliot, DR.. Hoover q. T.. Earle, 4.
D. owen, G. +. ErdInan, +. +. Church, Charles
Wilson, o. Wales and Edward Hubbell.
The Indian dance, the largest and most striking
OF the Kirmes dances, is under the mastery direc-
tton OF Mrs. Commissioner Black, who has man.
aged it like general assisted by Mrs. Russell
Lord, Miss Katherine Scott Mrs. John Oberly, Mrs.
Jules Guthridge, Mrs. j. NJ. Carey and Mrs. Col.
JAS. stevenson. The leaders are Miss Frances
Johnston and Mr. Theo. w. Birney; Miss Olivia
Adams and Mt. Harry Wilson. The others are
Misses Barnard, Borland Grace Black, Cotton,
Cartwright. Carry COttelili, Drown, McElroy,
Gensler. Hutton, King, keech, Minear, Sypher,
Thompson, May Wilson, Fanny Wilson, Willoughby,
Barry Woods Chambers Massey, shepherd, Grof1ln,
Smaley, Flora Smaley; gentlemen-Messrs. Her
man Birney, Breyman, Or. E. Rust, DR.. Chas.
Black. COllamar, Chas. Cooke. Dye Dutton, Elliott,
Hardy, Van Hook, Mckinney, Phillips, Jay Sypher,
Harry Smith, TowsOn, Town, Upton, Davis, A. j.
Smith and H. C. Merrill.
The Normandy. Or dance Of French peasants, is
made up as Follows: Mrs. Warner Miller chair
man: Mrs. Lewis Clephane, Mrs. ROb't j. Fisher,
1r, Mrs. senator Malone, Mrs. Isabella NJ. Bittn-
ger, Mrs. Geo. a. jerks. AIRS. ChaS II. Allen, and
Mrs. Jas. III. McGill, aids. Dancers-Nisses Hal
stead, Ley. Fletcher, Sherwood Custis SOlomons
Knight, Williams Katie Jones, DOWd, Manly
Reed, Reed, Robinson, Mahon, GrOSvenOr. Gaylord
Newton. Hutchinson, Howe, CrOghan Schmidt
berger Dangerf1eld, Korhler, Menitt, Thomson,
DetWeiier